[Scene 4 "France in Disarray"] [场景4 “法国趁乱”]

   

[RINGMASTER] [驯兽师]

The winger of eight-eight and nine 八十八，九边锋

Was aching cold, it chilled the very soul 疼痛是感冒，就冰鲜的灵魂

They came from the country in twos and threes 他们来自全国三三两两

A trickle, a river, a torrent, a sea, 涓涓细流，河流，激流，海洋，

Driven by hunger, driven by pain 饥饿的驱使下，疼痛驱动

   

[SERGEANT] [警长]

Company...Halt!... 公司......停！ ...

   

[RINGMASTER] [驯兽师]

A hundred thousand reached the barricade 成百成千的达到了路障

   

[SERGEANT] [警长]

Present... Fire!... 目前...火！ ...

   

[RINGMASTER] [驯兽师]

Three hundred dead, shot down like rats 三百人死亡，击落像老鼠

Three hundred lives, snuffed out like that 三百年的生命，扼杀了这样的

Have a care if you treat your people like vermin 如果你把你的人喜欢害虫有个照应

You could end up with bloodstained ermine 你可以用血迹斑斑的貂皮结束

But soft 但软

As ever in the ebb and flow 与以往一样，在潮起潮落

Sweet reason, deft and incorrupt 甜的原因，灵巧和廉洁

Adoring of the human kind illuminates man's plight 人类的那种崇拜照亮人的困境

Should be embrace 应该拥抱

The brute and base 蛮力和底座

Tilt blindly at the carousel 盲目倾斜的旋转木马

Or note, at least, the other voice 或注意，至少，其他声音

And entertain the choice 和娱乐的选择

Between the darkness and the light? 之间的黑暗和光明？